International Year of Astronomy

Mіzhnarodny Year astronomії

Dedicated to the International Year of Astronomy, which the United Nations has declared 2009. Four hundred years ago Galileo Galilei first used a telescope to study objects in the Universe.

International Year of Astronomy - a peaceful global cooperation to investigate the mysteries of human origin and our universe - that common heritage that binds all the inhabitants of the earth. Astronomy - an important ideological science, and the International Year of Astronomy - a good reason to understand its role in the development of civilization as a whole.

Ukraine

2009

Features coins

Denomination: 5 hryvnia Mintage: 45,000 pcs.

Material: nickel silver Quality: special uncirculated

Diameter: 35.00 mm. Weight: 16.54 gr.

Edge: Milled